View Full Version : Penny Arcade Announcement at PAX 2006: Episodic Games (Windows, Mac, Linux) Coming
CheapyD
08-12-2006, 04:07 AM
8/25 UPDATE: Games on the way! http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/penny-arcade-video-game-announced-196540.php
The first game, entitled Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, will be a comic adventure game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. No date has yet been set for its release.
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Another event you wont want to miss at PAX this year is the very first Penny Arcade panel. As usual we'll field questions from the audience for about and hour but then we have a surprise. At the end of our first Q&A we will make a huge announcement. If you're in the audience you'll be the first to hear what's next for Penny Arcade. Trust me, if you're a PA fan this announcement will kick your ass.An animated series, perhaps?
What are you guesses on what it could be?
Vegan
08-12-2006, 12:39 PM
Newspaper syndication? Heh.
Roufuss
08-12-2006, 12:41 PM
An animated series, perhaps?
What are you guesses on what it could be?
Video game based on the cardboard tube samurai?
All I can think of is a video game based off of one their spinoffs.
Scorch
08-12-2006, 12:49 PM
They sold the site to Jack Thompson.
Ricochet
08-12-2006, 12:53 PM
While I'd love a 12 minute cartoon a la Aqua Teen on Adult Swim, PA's recent xfire chat shot down the rumors of a series:
cwgabriel: Question: LeonTheAsshat: I'd like to know PA stands as far Gaming and Publication is concerned and with the huge popularity that has come from such a great series. The rumors of PA The Series has been floating around a lil more actively since E3, but also popularity doesn't place food on teh table to a degree. My Question to both is how you guys deal with events like as well and The Rumor of you moving your offices is a false one?
Answer: We will not be doing an animated series. We've been approached multiple times and it never works at least not any time soon
cwgabriel: Question: craziivan: Gabe you said animating the PA strip wouldn't work, have ever done any animating otherwise?
Answer: I don't have the patience to animate. And really I am not saying it would not work, just that none of the people who have approached us yet have made us believe they can make it work. I'm not saying PA will never be animated. It just needs to be the right people doing it and we have not seen that deal yet. Like Tycho said all these hollywood types think they are doing you a favor.
Vinny
08-12-2006, 01:00 PM
A game sounds very likely...
CheapyD
08-12-2006, 01:05 PM
I don't really think it's going to be a game.
It seems to me that a game based on PA would be the exact thing Gabe & Tycho would NOT be interested in.
Perhaps it has something to do with PAX 2007. Maybe a larger venue?
Roufuss
08-12-2006, 01:22 PM
I don't really think it's going to be a game.
It seems to me that a game based on PA would be the exact thing Gabe & Tycho would NOT be interested in.
Perhaps it has something to do with PAX 2007. Maybe a larger venue?
Maybe not based on PA, but I could see Cardboard Tube Samurai being a game.... they also have that fully fleshed out universe that I can't remember the name of that would probably make a good game.
Vegan
08-12-2006, 01:43 PM
Twisp and Catsby Mad Libs.
Squall835
08-12-2006, 01:48 PM
Does anyone else think Penny Arcade isn't really funny?
Vegan
08-12-2006, 01:49 PM
Does anyone else think Penny Arcade isn't really funny?
Here we go again...
Does anyone else think Penny Arcade isn't really funny?
Ahh...the usual trolls of these threads. Very reminiscent of GameFAQs, no?
Apossum
08-12-2006, 02:00 PM
they're announcing their devotion to Islam, followed by a quick lambasting of the American way of life.
seanr1221
08-12-2006, 02:12 PM
Xbox Live Arcade game? Who knows.
kristianator
08-12-2006, 09:22 PM
penny arcade lingerie for the ladies
cochesecochese
08-12-2006, 10:01 PM
I'm pulling for free t-shirts but I'll guess they're going to have a subscribers only section. It's just a guess so don't flip out on me, eh?
MarkMan
08-12-2006, 10:11 PM
I'm really hoping they pick up the lost slack from E3 being downsized. Maybe even bring a new convention to LA.
KaneRobot
08-14-2006, 04:53 PM
TV show = death
Game = unlikely
Newspaper strip = unlikely
Announcement about the next PAX being a huge event = likely
I'm pulling for free t-shirts but I'll guess they're going to have a subscribers only section. It's just a guess so don't flip out on me, eh?
They'd seem pretty hypocritical if they did so. They have ripped people who charge for stuff like that in the past.
Does anyone else think Penny Arcade isn't really funny?
It's hit and miss. Most comic strips are.
daphatty
08-15-2006, 04:23 PM
Does anyone else think Penny Arcade isn't really funny?
Agreed.
I hope they announce that it will be the last PAX show. :D
Jimbo Slice
08-15-2006, 04:29 PM
PAX East, perhaps?
An announcement that is essentially to the effect of "We're the new e3?"
daphatty
08-15-2006, 04:33 PM
You guys realize that PA has already stated they do not want to be the next E3, right?
cochesecochese
08-15-2006, 05:19 PM
PAX East, perhaps?
An announcement that is essentially to the effect of "We're the new e3?"
Oh hell yes. They were talking about this a while ago.
Roufuss
08-15-2006, 05:28 PM
Oh hell yes. They were talking about this a while ago.
Yea, they were talking, and they said they do not want to become the next E3.
PAX is not the new E3. E3 failed. If someone else wants to be the new E3 they are welcome to it. They can even set up shop in the carcass of the giant and claim his power, but E3 is dead and it died for a reason. If I were them I wouldn't be in such a hurry to stuff myself in that coffin, and I certainly wouldn't boast about it.
I highly doubt the annoucement will be that, it sounds like Gabe hated the whole concept of E3.
Shmitty
08-16-2006, 01:03 AM
reading the xfire chat, i'm throwing my vote towards a graphic novel.
Strell
08-16-2006, 01:20 AM
I hope they buy out every other online comic, and then promptly shut them down, so that only their comic remains.
Kapwanil
08-16-2006, 01:27 AM
They're buying out American Greetings just so they can put the Strawberry Shortcake strip into their upcoming book.
Moxio
08-16-2006, 02:47 AM
I'm not going to guess; I'll just wait.
crazytalkx
08-16-2006, 05:17 AM
They're buying out American Greetings just so they can put the Strawberry Shortcake strip into their upcoming book.
:rofl: :rofl:
radjago
08-16-2006, 10:00 AM
reading the xfire chat, i'm throwing my vote towards a graphic novel.
Either that or a regular comic book series unrelated to the PA webcomic.
Strell
08-16-2006, 10:01 AM
Either that or a regular comic book series unrelated to the PA webcomic.
That sounds about right. They're close enough to DC or whoever to pull something like that off.
They talk about how they've started projects but never gone anywhere with them. For example, the last one I remember was a sort of noir drama. Before that, they had one about a sort of futuristic Wild West, with cybernetic arm cowboys and things.
I'm sure Tycho has no shortage of stories he'd like to write.
Maybe it'll be a sort of episodic short thing. Like for a few months they do the noir thing, then the cowboy thing, then maybe a generic PA universe thing, etc.
javeryh
08-16-2006, 10:28 AM
I think they are going to announce they are leaving the hardware business altogether and going third party.
Strell
08-16-2006, 11:14 AM
I think they are going to announce they are leaving the hardware business altogether and going third party.
I knew the wangmote was a bad idea.
Mookyjooky
08-16-2006, 11:19 AM
They've been working on a Cardboard Tube Samurai game for years. Could be finished?
Kayden
08-16-2006, 08:58 PM
Hopefully one of them has cancer.... of the balls.
yukine
08-16-2006, 09:52 PM
Yes, a video game is probably going to be it. Why would they announce their convention is going to be like E3... at the convention? It just doesn't make sense.
And anyway, they have already said they don't want to be the next E3, and don't get why other conventions would want to be either.
miyamotofreak
08-18-2006, 02:55 AM
I'm guessing a XBLA Tube Samurai game or a small publishing studio.
CheapyD
08-25-2006, 03:28 PM
Video game based on the cardboard tube samurai?
All I can think of is a video game based off of one their spinoffs.
Bingo:
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/penny-arcade-video-game-announced-196540.php
yukine
08-25-2006, 03:34 PM
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6156532.html?action=convert&click=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;2
Not sure if it's part of the announcement or what, but at least now we know they are making a video game.
daphatty
08-25-2006, 03:40 PM
Good luck, PA.
Not sure if I was expecting more from this announcement but I am underwhelmed.
BKPartisan
08-25-2006, 04:47 PM
Comic adventure game of any kind is enough to whelm me, and whelm me good, I say.
evanft
08-25-2006, 05:24 PM
Man, I'm REALLY anticipating this. Seriously. I am. :|
Chrono72090
08-25-2006, 06:46 PM
Man, I'm REALLY anticipating this. Seriously. I am. :|
Who isn't though O.o
As long as they're writing the script I'm reserving that shit.
Kaijufan
08-25-2006, 10:25 PM
I enjoy reading Penny Arcade, but I'm not going to buy a Penny Arcade game.
Apossum
08-26-2006, 12:35 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Fonzie_jumps_the_shark.PNG/200px-Fonzie_jumps_the_shark.PNG
Vegan
08-26-2006, 02:58 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Fonzie_jumps_the_shark.PNG/200px-Fonzie_jumps_the_shark.PNG
It's not jumping the shark when there's a legion of people eagerly waiting to eat it up.